Sam Altman at U-M
Mehmed Uludag, an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Robotics, holds up his phone to take a selfie with Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, and other students following Office Hours, in the Rackham Graduate School West Conference Room, on the Main Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, on Thursday afternoon, September 12, 2024.
According to Nick Moroz, the director of Entrepreneurial Practice at the College of Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship, "Students came prepared with questions spanning a variety of topics, notably around the themes of AI infrastructure, safety, and computational needs. This was a very significant time for such an occasion because it coincided with the launch of OpenAI's newest model o1, otherwise known as Strawberry. Sam was fantastic with the students answering questions from nearly everyone in the room in brief, but dense responses. His insights provided the students with an amazing sense of the path forward for AI research and application given the paradigm-shifting launch of o1 and its novel advancement of reasoning. The students, 10 PhD students and 20 undergrads, were chosen to participate based on their work with AI, including referrals from faculty, participation in the 2023 CFE Generative AI Competition, and the questions that they submitted to OpenAI for consideration.”
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Sam Altman at U-M
Mehmed Uludag, an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Robotics, holds up his phone to take a selfie with Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, and other students following Office Hours, in the Rackham Graduate School West Conference Room, on the Main Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, on Thursday afternoon, September 12, 2024.
According to Nick Moroz, the director of Entrepreneurial Practice at the College of Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship, "Students came prepared with questions spanning a variety of topics, notably around the themes of AI infrastructure, safety, and computational needs. This was a very significant time for such an occasion because it coincided with the launch of OpenAI's newest model o1, otherwise known as Strawberry. Sam was fantastic with the students answering questions from nearly everyone in the room in brief, but dense responses. His insights provided the students with an amazing sense of the path forward for AI research and application given the paradigm-shifting launch of o1 and its novel advancement of reasoning. The students, 10 PhD students and 20 undergrads, were chosen to participate based on their work with AI, including referrals from faculty, participation in the 2023 CFE Generative AI Competition, and the questions that they submitted to OpenAI for consideration.”
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing